5- Standards Based Curriculum

the term 'curriculum" originates from the Latin word currere, which means:

"the course to be run"

With so many states adopting CCSS, many believe we are heading towards:

A national curriculum (some say we're already there)

Formal, public statements of what students should know and be able to do in each of the content areas at various points in their PK-12 education.

Academic content standards

formal statements of what students know and should be able to do in each of the content areas at various points in their P-12 education:

Academic content standards

Ensuring that teachers are held responsible for their students' learning; using student learning as the measure of a teacher's effectiveness.

Accountability

States that receive NCLB Waivers have to address: Establish a new ____ system

Accountability

Assessments FOR learning or OF learning? Formative and summative assessments

Assessments FOR learning

Assessments FOR learning or OF learning? summative assessments;

Assessments OF learning

States that receive NCLB Waivers have to address: Adopt standards for ______ readiness

College & Career

A set of standards that describe knowledge and skills that students need for success in college and careers:

Common Core State Standards

What does CCSS stand for?

Common Core State Standards

A document prepared at the state or local district level that provides detailed information to help teachers plan instruction.

Curriculum guide

If states seek NCLB Waivers, they must either accept CCSS or _____.

Develop their own standards

States that receive NCLB Waivers have to address: Implement ways of improving learning for ___ and ___ students.

ELL and SE

Standards & School Reform: -Students need to master a common core of information and skills -Promotes a vision of schooling in which students engage in in- depth and rigorous learning. -Principles of essential schools include: =Using the mind with a focus on essential learning goals =An attempt to apply these goals to all students =Personalized teaching and learning =Student performance on real tasks with multiple forms of evidence

Essential Schools

The formal, official, public academic program of study that defines what students are expected to know as a result of being in school:

Explicit curriculum

True or False: "Academic content standards" and "curriculum guides" are interchangeable terms used to describe what students should know and be able to do in each of the content areas at the various points in their P-12 education.

False

True or False: All states must adopt the Common Core State Standards.

False

True or False: School Improvement Process was designed around the core assumption that every child can read.

False

True or False: The United States has a single national curriculum where education is centralized at the national level.

False

What students actually learn in relationship to the goals of the explicit curriculum—which is not always the same as those goals.

Learned curriculum

Everything that is not included in the explicit curriculum, and, thus, is not expected to be learned during a student's PK-12 education.

Null curriculum.

Standards & School Reform: Teams of teachers who work together to improve student learning. They: - developing common goals - determining ways to meet goals - implement different approaches - collecting data to determine if the approaches have met their goals.

Professional Learning Communities

Teams of teachers who work together to improve student learning by developing common goals, determining ways to meet these goals, and implementing different approaches, and collecting data to determine if the approaches have met their goals:

Professional Learning Communities

Standards & School Reform: -The focus is on developing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum.

STEM

A research-based, comprehensive K-12 education reform program grounded in the principles of child, adolescent, and adult supervision:

School Development Program

Standards & School Reform: -Is a research- based, comprehensive K- 12 education reform program grounded in the principles of child, adolescent, and adult development. -The teams are guided by three principles: decision making, problem solving, and collaboration. -Creation of an environment that promotes the adult- student interactions necessary for good student development and academic learning in school.

School Development Program

An approach for gradual improvement of school curricula:

School Improvement Process

Standards & School Reform: -An approach for gradual improvement of school curricula. -Team of principal, teachers, team leads, department chairs, and parents. -Hold meetings to determine how well students are performing. -They identify specific targets that everyone will work on in the next year.

School Improvement Process

Standards & School Reform: Comprehensive programs to bring about school-wide changes in curriculum and instruction. The intention is to increase learning outcomes for all students:

School reform

States that receive NCLB Waivers have to address: Restrict ____ of education.

State control

Standards & School Reform: -Was developed around the core assumption that every child can read. -Structured approach to the curriculum and support for children. -Includes specific reading books, use of reading tutors, and eight-week reading assessments. -Teachers use prescribed strategy.

Success for All

Was developed around the core assumption that every child can read:

Success for All

The curriculum that is delivered by teachers once they make decisions about how to teach the explicit curriculum.

Taught curriculum

States that receive NCLB Waivers have to address: Develop an evaluation system based on measures to improve _____.

Teacher effectiveness

_____ is a research- based, comprehensive K- 12 education reform program grounded in the principles of child, adolescent, and adult development.

The School Development Program

True or False: Academic standards vary from state to state in the way they are organized and the direction they provide for teachers.

True

True or False: One element for states to receive an NCLB waiver is to establish a new accountability system.

True

True or False: The Common Core State Standards' intent is to develop standards that focus on what is most essential.

True

True or False: The creation of academic standards in response to A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is an example of a national influence on curriculum.

True

The term _____ implies that at some point students must demonstrate that they have actually mastered the standards—most often on a standardized test of achievement in that subject area.

academic content standards

(2) purposes (types) of assessments:

formative assessment and summative assessment

_____ is defined as all the things students learn by virtue of being in school that are not part of the explicit curriculum.

hidden curriculum

Term for everything that is left out of the curriculum to begin with:

null curriculum